Monumenta Antiqua: Or, The Stone Monuments of Antiquity Yet Remaining in the British Isles, Particularly as Illustrated by Scripture. Also a Dissertation on Stonehenge: Together with a Compendious Account of the Druids. To which are Added Conjectures on the Origin and Design of the Pyramids of Egypt, and of the Round Towers of IrelandJ. B. Nichols & Son, 1840 - 199 pages |
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... offering , " the evidence will be still stronger - in con- nexion with that which will be hereafter adduced -that it was from this particular circumstance of the " pillar " of stone being raised as a Bethel , a house of God , that stone ...
... offering , " the evidence will be still stronger - in con- nexion with that which will be hereafter adduced -that it was from this particular circumstance of the " pillar " of stone being raised as a Bethel , a house of God , that stone ...
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... offering on the pillar , must be significant . And , if the one was significant , so was doubtless the other ; and , guided by subse- quent scripture , as before , we may conjecture that this was designed to signify the cheering nature ...
... offering on the pillar , must be significant . And , if the one was significant , so was doubtless the other ; and , guided by subse- quent scripture , as before , we may conjecture that this was designed to signify the cheering nature ...
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... offering upon it slain animals in sacrifice . They originally were commanded to be of earth ; or if of stones , such were to be used in their rough , un- hewn state . Such at least , was the direction given to Moses three thousand three ...
... offering upon it slain animals in sacrifice . They originally were commanded to be of earth ; or if of stones , such were to be used in their rough , un- hewn state . Such at least , was the direction given to Moses three thousand three ...
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... offered up upon the altars . " In Caithness , and other remote parts of Scot- land , these cromlechs are very numerous , some pretty entire , and others not so much consumed by time , or thrown down by storms , as disor- dered and ...
... offered up upon the altars . " In Caithness , and other remote parts of Scot- land , these cromlechs are very numerous , some pretty entire , and others not so much consumed by time , or thrown down by storms , as disor- dered and ...
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... offered on them ; and notice has been taken of small circular holes in the end of the altar - stone , probably to admit the rope by which the sacrifice was bound to the altar . And Toland remarks , that they were places of * For a rope ...
... offered on them ; and notice has been taken of small circular holes in the end of the altar - stone , probably to admit the rope by which the sacrifice was bound to the altar . And Toland remarks , that they were places of * For a rope ...
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according adoration altar amongst ancient Britons anointed appear Arch-Druid assembly authors Bards barrows Bethel Britain British Isles building Cæsar called carns Christ circles of stones conceive consecrated consider Cornwall cromlech cubits custom deity Diodorus Siculus divine Druidical Druidical priesthood Druids Egypt Elagabalus erected feast feet high festivals fire Gaul Gilgal heap of stones heathen Hengist Herodotus Hist holes honour hundred idol idolatrous worship immense intercourse Ireland Irish Israel Jacob kings land of Israel Lord lustration mentioned monument of antiquity Moore Moore's Ireland Moses obelisks object of worship observed offered origin oval perhaps Phoenicians pillars of stone place of worship Pliny probably purpose pyramids religion religious remarkable Reverend rock-stone rocks Round Towers sacred sacrificed sacrifices says Scotland Scripture sepulchral Shechem signifies speaking Stanton Moor Stonehenge Strabo structure Stukeley suppose Tarshish thou Toland trilithons twelve Tyre Universal History unto Vortigern way-marks